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A paper of Allendoerfer and W~il implied that the existence of local isometric embeddings was enough, thereby settling the case of analytic metrics). These earlier proofs wrote the Generalized Gauss-Bonnet integrand as the volume element times a scalar that was a complicated polynomial in the components of the Riemann tensor. In [25] Chern for the first time wrote the integrand as the Pfatfan of the curvature forms and then provided a simple and elegant intrinsic proof of the theorem along the lines of the above proof for surfaces.

It is cleariy a ring homomorphism, and in recognition of Weil's lemma Chern called it the Weil homomorphism, but it is more commonly referred to as the Chern-Weil homomorphism. For U(n) the ring R" of ad-invariant polynomials on its Lie algebra has an elegant and explicit description that follows easily from the diagonalizability of skew-hermitian operators and the classic classification of symmetric polynomials. Extend the adjoint action of U(n) to the polynomial ring R[t] by letting it act trivially on the new indetern minate t.

Is called the torsion of the connection, and what Chern exploited was the fact that he could in certain cases define "intrinsic" N(G) connections by putting conditions on T. For example, the Levi-Civita connection can be characterized as the unique N(O(n)) connection on N(P) such that T = O. In fact, in [43] Chern showed that if the Lie algebra L( G) satisfied a certain simple algebraic condition ("property C") then it was always possible to define an intrinsic N(G) connection in this way, and he proved that any compact G satisfies property C.